Sentence examples for plank to include from inspiring English sources

And all of those decisions, including North Carolina's, preceded President Obama's history-making statement of support for marriage equality; the endorsement of same-sex marriage by the N.A.A.C.P.; and the more recent news that the Democratic Party was drafting a marriage-equality plank to include in its platform this year, for the first time ever.

Through the chairman of the Republican National Committee he urged the party to include a plank for such an amendment in its platform of 1864.

The Republican platform was altered to include a plank calling for the breakup of big banks via the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall.

Conservative Christian groups have long sought to challenge the Johnson Amendment on the ground that it violates First Amendment rights, and this year they succeeded in persuading the Republican Party to include a plank in its platform that calls for its repeal.

But Senator Oscar Underwood, an anti-Klan Alabamian, pushed to include a plank in the Party platform condemning the group, declaring that "it is just a question of being brave and facing the issue squarely".

Ultimately the convention agreed not to include a plank on the subject.

Peter S. Sprigg, a senior fellow at the Family Research Council, predicted that Democrats will regret their decision to include the marriage plank in their platform.

The Republican Party platform had, as yet, failed to include a similar plank, though Lincoln endorsed the amendment in a letter accepting his nomination.

A highly unpopular decision, Pollock v. Farmers Loann and Trust Company spurred the Democratic Party to include an income tax plank in its 1896 platform and to charge the court with "judicial usurpation".

Nevertheless, the two did act in concert to block some aspects of the Brezhnev-Nixon policy of détente, and were instrumental in getting the US Senate to include a human rights plank in the agreement.

The convention was riven by debate over whether to include a free silver plank in the campaign's platform, opposing the gold standard and calling for the government to mint large numbers of silver dollars.